Vine accounts will be added to the Federal Social Media Registry in the coming weeks as agencies create Vine profiles, the new media office said via Twitter. The registry verifies official government social media accounts to distinguish them from fan and parody accounts.

It’s not clear yet how agencies will use Vine’s six-second videos. Twitter’s 140 characters once seemed far too short for a government agency to convey useful information and Twitter is now among the most common tools agencies use to get information to the public.

With @vineapp @joseph_marks_ we knew agencies needed more mobile visual sharing: @vineapp is new, but we wanted agencies to have it early.